Gravedigging badgers keep dragging human bones from cemetery into nan's garden
dailystar.co.ukfinding human remains scattered about her garden by badgers.Ann Mathers, 88, was shocked when she found femurs and jaw bones in her flowerbeds at the property where she has lived for more than 60 years.The gran from Dudley, West Midlands, said she was “scared to death” by the discovery, with it not initially clear what was causing the remains to appear. READ MORE: 'Saddest ever' £10m Grand Designs house 'gave viewers second-hand panic attack' Her first discovery came back in July of 2021, when the appearance of a person’s skull led to the police initially cordoning off her home as a crime scene, WalesOnline reports.
Investigating officers quickly discovered that the culprits for the gruesome boneyard were a set of graverobbing badgers.They discovered that the furry fiends had been dragging dead people's bones into Ann’s garden from a graveyard down the road.The furry fellas had been using a footpath between her home and the cemetery at Providence Baptist Church to move the remains.Despite pleas from Ann and her family, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council insisted that the set couldn’t be moved until after their breeding season was over.Lorraine Lloyd, Ann’s daughter, 60, told WalesOnline: “This problem has been going on for a year now and my mum is just sick of it.“The badgers are tunnelling under the graves and when they come across one which has collapsed they drag the bones out and dump them in mum’s garden.
They are basically fly-tipping human remains all over my mum’s lawn and there’s nothing we can do about it.”Civil servant Lorraine added: “I was on holiday when my mum called me in hysterics saying she’d found a human skull in the bushes.
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